Martin Scorsese’s documentaries:
- No Direction Home (Bob Dylan)
- Living in the Material World (George Harrison)
- Rolling Thunder Revue (many great artists, among them Allen Ginsburg, Dylan, & Joni Mitchell and their ‘75 tour)
and, my personal favorite,
- Public Speaking (Fran Lebowitz)
Spike Lee’s documentaries:
- Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
- David Byrne’s American Utopia
Jonathan Demme’s documentaries:
- Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Peter Jackson/Michael Lindsay-Hogg: Get Back (Beatles early ‘69)
PBS American Masters documentary series:
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
- Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’
- Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
Classic Albums documentary series:
- Songs in the Key of Life
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Liz Garbus: What Happened, Miss Simone? (Nina Simone)
John Scheinfeld: Who is Harry Nilsson and Why is Everybody Talking About Him?
Questlove: Summer of Soul (‘69 Harlem Music Festival featuring an absurd lineup including Max Roach, Nina Simone, David Ruffin, Stevie Wonder, Sly & the Family Stone, and more)
Gabe Turner/Ben Turner: Hitsville: The Making of Motown
- anything on YouTube of Glenn Gould talking about music.
- anything on YouTube of Leonard Bernstein talking about music, particularly his The Unanswered Question lecture series